Lake of the Woods Prep

If you are reading this blog not long after I posted it, I am currently in Ontario for my annual backcountry fishing trip. When I return home, I’ll probably write about some of the highlights of the trip, but for now I am checking out my fishing gear and loading up my...

Those Like Clare

I may have mentioned in earlier blogs that I am writing a book-length manuscript about Clare being raised by a first generation Taiwanese American mom and a fourth generation Midwestern American dad. While the book revolves around Clare, I did take brief looks at the...

Gonna Make My Garden Grow

One of the appeals of vegetable gardens is a sense of self-sufficiency. If I had to live on what comes out of my garden, I’d last about a week, but I still enjoy the illusion. I put eating from my garden in the same category as imagining that I am an explorer when I...

Finding Her Redwood Tree

My daughter Clare turned twenty-seven years old last month. Her birthday made me wonder where I was and what I was doing when I was the age that Clare is now. Adding twenty-seven to my year of birth revealed that the year was 1981. It was January 1981 when I put my...
Steven Simpson